Summit Dating

Breweries. Date your bottles so consumers know what it means. You owe us that.

 

If the codes on the "Fresh Beer Only!" page are accurate:

2012, 11th day, 1320 = "Military time" 1:20 PM (time of bottling) -- unless I'm reading that wrong.
Paging Dr. Landers... STAT!

 

IIRC an actual "Enjoy by" date is on the bottle. Maybe the shoulder? It can be hard to read sometimes in certain light. Although, maybe they changed that.

 

Alternatively, you could look here

http://www.summitbrewing.com/frequently-asked-questions

 

Just found the date on an Unchained. Right above the shoulder on the neck. Says enjoy by...black ink, hard to read on the brown bottle in certain light, but it's definitely there.

 

Thanks for the answer Berg! To reiterate, we do "enjoy by dates" as well as julien dating:

Summit has an “Enjoy By” date to be found on one of the long sides of each case and 12-pack. It should be at the top upper, right-hand corner on one of the sides. It is only on one side so it may be necessary to turn a package to see it. There is no date on individual 6-packs, but each Summit bottle has an “Enjoy By” date video-coded on the neck of the bottle just above the shoulder.

The packaging date is also laser printed in the upper left corner of the label. There are 8 characters. The first 4 are the packaging date expressed as a Julian date - the first character is the year and the next three are the numerical day of the year. The final four characters are simply the time that bottle was filled.